The Wren, The Wren is not a narrative of grand events but an exploration of the intricate threads that bind couples and families.
Tag: Irish
Scenes of a Graphic Nature
A clever, perceptive, well written and very readable novel about Ireland, history, lies and stories.
White City
Moving and well written story of family dysfunction, the corruption of wealth and a life shattered by a series of poor decisions.
Life Sentences
A long and unrelenting story of miserable poverty, hard work and bare survival. It’s miserable to read, too, despite often lyrical prose.
A Good Father
Des is a good father. He loves his wife and children more than anything. So much that he’s determined to take care of them, once and for all.
Love
Love between friends, between parents and children, between spouses. And that weird, unreliable, deceptive kind of love — being ‘in love’.
Snow
There’s a body in the library of the Big House, but nothing is quite as it appears in Snow, an atmospheric whodunnit set in post-war Ireland.
The Searcher
American ex-cop in the Irish countryside. Intelligent and well written, it debunks the tourist-brochure stereotypes. A cracking good read.
Where the Edge Is
Where the edge is is about the events surrounding a bus that falls into a sinkhole early one morning in a small town in Ireland. But the bus crash itself
No Simple Death
Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a graveyard in Foxrock, an upscale suburb of Dublin. I thoroughly enjoyed this police procedural. It’s fairly standard